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I just can't understand how the mirror remained balanced!

It's a wooden framed one I found in a prefab we moved into in 1984.
it had been painted, but was so damp I could squeeze water out!
I very slowly dried it off, putting it in slightly drier rooms over a period of time.
When I took it apart, in preparation for removing the paint, I found a bit of an old magazine, dated 1875 - so I'm glad it didn't break.

There's absolutely no damage - no chipped glass, the old dovetail joints are still in place - but it's not exactly light - the glass is very heavy.

May be coincidence, but spooky just the same!

I never had any 'trick or treater's' on Sunday.
However, 2 of my cats went unusually ballistic when I put 'frontline' on them. One wouldn't let me touch him, the other spat at me and ran away, every time I walked into a room she was in - behaviour neither had ever shown before.

Got up Monday morning, before I switched the living room light on, I thought one of the cats had plucked a bird in the living room - there appeared to be 'bits' all over the floor.

Turned the light on - only to see it was pot pourri - two metal baskets that normally stood on the mantlepiece were on the floor, their contents scattered.
I thought one of the cats had knocked them off.

Made a cup of tea, went back into the living room, looked towards the fire to see what else had been knocked off - only a wooden cow - all the rest of the junk was still on the mantlepiece.
Then I noticed that the large mirror (with an inch wide frame) that hung above the fire had fallen! It wasn't broken - it was balanced on the mantlepiece (4 inches wide max) and seemed to have managed to avoid landing on the clutter - quite an achievement, I can tell you!.........and I never heard a thing -
neither the mirror falling, nor the metal containers hitting the wooden floor!
That spooked me out.
I took the mirror down and looked at the hefty twine that held it up - it had broken one side - so how had it managed to land on the mantelpiece?
I would have thought it would have slid down one side, become unbalanced and fallen off.

Walking to work, I realised my grandmother had died 7 years ago on 31 October, aged 99.